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From 14 March to 23 August 2026, the Palazzo Strozzi will host the exhibition Rothko in Florence, one of the most significant exhibitions ever dedicated to one of the great masters of modern art.
The solo exhibition traces Rothko’s entire career with over 70 works from prestigious private collections and leading international museums, including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Tate in London, the Centre national d’art et de culture Georges-Pompidou in Paris and the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
From Palazzo Strozzi, the exhibition then moves on to the Museo di San Marco, where the works are displayed in dialogue with Beato Angelico’s frescoes, and to the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana.
Mark Rothko (Marcus Rothkowitz) was born in Dvinsk, Russia, in 1903 and, at the age of 10, emigrated with his family to the United States, settling in Portland. After studying at Yale University, he moved to New York, where he began his artistic career and taught for many years at the Brooklyn Jewish Center. During the 1930s and 1940s, he experimented with artistic languages influenced by Surrealism and mythology, before, at the end of the 1940s, devoting himself to the famous abstract compositions featuring large chromatic backgrounds that established him as one of the leading figures in 20th-century art. Mark Rothko died in New York in 1970.
